Sunday, October 10

4:45 - 6:45 PM

Narrative Shorts
4:45- 5:30 PM

John Provost by Matthew Kraus / 7 min. / 2000 / Documentary
An intimate profile of John Provost and his unique hobby.

Bubbly by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Josh Flowers / 5:30 min. / 2010 / Narrative
Two negatives equal a positive when a man and woman meet at a birthday party.

Ninety Degrees and Sunny by Sean McArdle / 6:21 min. / 2010 / Narrative Fiction
After suffering a devastating loss, a woman attempts to recover and deal with the guilt and consequences that occur from one simple, irredeemable mistake.

Paper Turtle by Jonathan Stutzman / 10:46 min. / 2010 / Narrative Fiction
A young boy wanders a playground and the streets seemingly waitng for someone or something.
He meets a young girl who helps him on his journey.

Two Young Filmmakers:

The White Room by Andrew Kovac / 4:38 min. / 2010 / Experimental
A film about life and death – the room being life and how one is trapped inside and the outside represents death and how one is lost and doesn’t know what to do.
Andrew is 13 years old and attends Miller-South school.

Elaine Parker by Nicole Trainer, Tom Trainer / 5 min. / 2008 / Comedy
Elaine Parker is running for president and is giving her political “schpeel”.
Nicole was 11 years old when she recorded this video with her father, Tom. Much of it is improvised and equally conceived by her.

Gigglers by Ryan Bajornas / 5 min. / 2008 / Experimental Documentary
To laugh is to live.

(10 min. break)

International Shorts
5:40 - 6:45

Pouring by Tibor Simon-Mazula / 4:02 min. / 2009 / Music Video
A young ambitious man lives in Dubai. By day he works as a clerk but at night he becomes a clown. One day the border between his two lives is starting to wear off.

INTINAHUI - IN THE EYE OF THE SUN by Klaus Schrefler / 12 minutes / 2009 / Experimental Animation
The presence of the sun is permanent and without precondition – its energy is part of every living being and connects the parts within. This 3D computer animation deals with rhythms of life itself, in a dream-like fashion.
Of the nine chapters of this piece we will be showing the first five entitled, "Unity", "Separation", "Creation", "The Whole", and "Principle".

THE MAINFRAME by Dieter Edler, Daniel Hermes, Christian Punzengruber / 5:15 min. / 2007 /
Stop-action Animation
The screen is split in two parts, each one is telling a different story, happening at the same time with significant connection to the other.

UNIQUE! by Ulla Klopf / 3:52 min. / 2008 / Animation
The white paper and red ink of this cut-and-paste animation piece will make you think of flesh and blood being rearranged and its significance to a woman's body.

2 Spotlight International Films

Dusserha by Jigyasa Taneja / 22 min. / 2004 / India / Narratvie Fiction
The film was shot over four days in Begumpur village near IIT, Delhi. It stars Tillotama Shome, Banwari Taneja, Bhupesh Pandya and some children from Begumpur, who were trained by Taneja for a month. ‘‘The semi-rural setting gives it a timelessness. But that’s not to say that incest doesn’t happen in urban families,’’ says Taneja. This film was nominated for a student Oscar.

Adeem by Adel Serhan / 12 min. / 2009 / Lebanon / Narrative Fiction
"It is a movie that lasts only 12 minutes but is equivalent to
two hours because of its intensity. 'Adeem' is a story that
contains the universally human story of defending land,
the land of one's country, as an ordinary person or as a soldier.
The film starts with a laugh, a mother's laugh, ... and ends with
her screaming tears the moment she meets her son as
martyr in his white coffin." says Serhan.

The filmmaker will be present for a brief Q&A

TED SIKORA

HERO TOMORROW / 2007 / 93 minutes / Comedy

David, a struggling comic book creator from Cleveland, spends his days cutting grass and his nights smoking it while desperately trying to keep his superhero fantasies alive. When Robyn, his aspiring fashion-designer girlfriend, makes him a Halloween costume of his original character Apama, it doesn't take David long to hit the streets and begin blundering towards disaster. Can Robyn rescue David and save their relationship before his vigilante dreams become a four color nightmare? Does the comfort and security of her own desire offer a trap just as deadly to this comic book Don Quixote?

Ted Sikora will be available for a Q&A following the screening of his film.